Visual Resources Center (Slide Library)

The Visual Resources Center Collection is a teaching resource supported by the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts, The primary function of this collection is to supply visual resources to meet the teaching needs of the Division of Art and Design. With approval from the VRC Librarian, faculty from other Purdue University departments may use the collection for teaching Purdue University courses.

The VRC collection evolved as a browsing collection  of slides using a natural language system of organization. We have approximately 160,000 analog slides, and 14,000 digital images (cataloged in a Filemaker Pro database).  We make slides, scan slides and create original digital images as well as license content.  Currently, access to the collection is through browsing and subject search onsite.  We also have a collection of books, VHS tapes and  DVD's with the predominant subject emphasis in art and art history related topics.  Videos and DVDs are for instructional purposes and are not available for public performance. We subscribe to several journals and magazines to facilitate research by faculty and students in the course of their studio practice. We support the documentation of student work and maintain course study pages on the web. At times we also engage in video documentation of departmental events and classes.

The equipment we checkout includes: slide projectors, slide carousels, flat screen TV monitors, JVC studio monitors, fluid head tripods, Smith-Victor light hoods and stands, and a TV on a cart with a VCR/DVD player.

The Visual Resources Center has a limited number of work-study positions available to qualified undergraduates.

Our website is under construction with updated information on digital policies and remote access to the database and images currently in progress.

Kathy Evans
Visual Resources Librarian 
PAO 3121F 
765-494-7666 
kathy@purdue.edu

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